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…Antigone and 9-11-01 Sophocles was well-versed in Tragedy, and these days everyone in America is as well. We are discovering what it is to be vulnerable, what is it to feel suffering and torment, and how to let loose a flood of emotions…

…the murder of her mother.                  The Oedipus Complex originates from a myth about a Greek hero named Oedipus, written by Sophocles. Oedipus was the son of Laius and Jocasta who in the fulfillment of an oracle unknowingly kills his father…

…a significant scene in the play. * Many parallels have been drawn between the character of Oedipus in Sophocles's drama and that of Hamlet. Students can read Oedipus Rex and compare his plight to that of Hamlet's. * Show a videotape or film of the play. Involve…

…that only the artistic world would pass through those two epochs. According to Arnold, the epoch of expansion was seen in two very important periods, the first epoch of expansion is Periclean Athens, in which the greatest voices and works of Aeschylus, Sophocles…

…of language... People on the stage have, from Sophocles to Shakespeare, always spoken more clearly, more directly, more to the purpose than they ever would have done in real life (Esslin, p.236). No longer was the language used by characters lofty and worthy…

…must remember that Greeks like Sophocles in the Fifth Century B.C. used works like "gain" and "interest" only in taunting insults, and that the Catholic Church forbid Catholics to engage in lending money at interest as late as the l5 th century. Jews…

…is not so cut and dry. For some, drama is a type of television show, such as a hospital or lawyer show. For others, it is that section of the movie rental place where all 'chick flicks' are. For still others, drama means Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus…

…. Now it is difficult for the parents of those children to justify the reason for argument. So they punish their children by putting them in ‘timeout’. And this whole concept is what underlines both Antigone, by Sophocles and The Reader, by Bernard Schlink…

…. That a woman will "resist" the terms of her destiny (social or spiritual) is not a new concept in English literature up to the publication of Jane Eyre in 1847. We have after all the stubborn heroines of certain of Shakespeare's plays, and even Sophocles’s Antigone…

…is derived from the story of Tamar and Judah. When Tamar allegedly sinned with an unknowing Judah, he realized "she did it because I broke my promise to let her marry my son Shelah” (Genesis, 38:26) ( p.40) A few thousand years later, Sophocles’s wrote about…